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Shinjuku Pit Inn
A stage worth staying up for · Tokyo, Japan
Photo: Ville Hyvönen · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.5★Rating
658Reviews
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Year-roundBest time
The experience
A basement jazz club in Shinjuku 2-chome running since 1966, seating roughly 40-50 people. It programmes a daytime set and an evening set most days, weighted towards Japanese players and the free and avant-garde end of the music. DownBeat described it in 2019 as Japan's most important jazz club.
Sixty years of Japanese jazz history in a room where you sit close enough to hear the keys move.
jazzbasementseriousno-frills
Where it is
Tokyo, Japan · Shinjuku 2-chome, Shinjuku. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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